In the month of love - To Love is to Live

Thank Sean it’s Friday - In the month of love
To Love is to Live

This month, I have been looking at love that is, as the song says “a many splendored thing”. February, with its celebration of the St Valentine, represents the beginning of spring and all the renewal of a new season. At this time of year, flower growers and chocolate makers bank their rewards to cover Mother’s Day and Easter, all in their own way celebrations of love and giving.

Agape, the Greek for altruistic love, that is caritas in Latin, the root of our word charity, is related to the Ajna Chakra in the centre of the forehead, the colour indigo and the intuitive harmony of beauty. It is the seat of Clair, or clear, as in clairvoyance, clairaudience and clairscience. It is the deep love of all things.

Storge, the Greek for companionable love, is the love of comradeship, friendship, and belonging. It is related to the Svadisthana Chakra just below the navel, the colour orange and the sensuality of touch. It is the love that binds groups and communities. In relationships, it is the love that maintains once eroticism has faded.

Ludus is the Greek for the love that is the playful affection of children and of casual lovers, who may indeed have many partners. It is related to the Manipura Chakra situated over the solar plexus, the colour yellow and the drive towards new experience. It is the love of variety and change and all that is novel and different.

Pragma is the Greek word for the love that exists between a long-standing married couple. It is related to the Vishuddhi Chakra situated at the base of the throat and the colour blue. It is the respectful love of tradition and order and parental teaching, trust and longevity.

Mania is the Greek for obsessive, passionate love that is both demanding and loud. It is related to the Anahata Chakra situated over the heart and the colour green. It is a possessive drive that requires ownership of the love object, the high emotions of achievement in all things and the love emotions of jealousy and envy.

Eros is the Greek word for physical love or eroticism. It is related to the Muladhara Chakra situated over the gonads and the colour red. Eros, the physical love, is often preceded and accompanied by mania as the drive to possess becomes overwhelming in the passion of taking another physically.

The Greeks stopped at this point, but I have two more to offer.

Tantra is the love of the creative imagination. It is related to the Sahasarama Chakra situated at the crown of the head and the colour violet. It is the inspired love that creates visions that change the world and create new life. Tantra is the driving force of human evolution. Source love is the total love of all. It is the sum total of all that is and is therefore related to the colour white. It is the love of all things, both good and bad. It is the power of forgiveness, repentance and letting go. It is total acceptance, total safety, total belonging and total peace, it is the state of enlightenment, it is source energy from which all comes and to which all returns.

White love is so powerful that it always shines light into the darkness and nullifies hatred and reverses evil into LIVE. As Confucius said: “To love something is to want it to live” To hate something is the opposite. To diminish, to destroy and to denigrate is the opposite of love and the desire to live; it is EVIL. Evil means the lack of life and the lack of love.

So, ending the month on a high note, may we all let go of the dark by shining a light into it. When you hear people in negative conversation, gossiping or moaning, shine in a bit if light and love. Whenever you experience EVIL, shine some light in to allow those people to LIVE. Whenever you experience hatred, seek help and get some light in your soul so that you can live also.